Educating Homeless Children

Newman's ethnographic study considers the ways in which the family and school environments of eleven homeless school children affected their school performance. Homelessness is revealed to be multi-faceted serving simultaneously as a cause result and potentiator of their families' problems. A variety of initiatives in the realms of policy research and practice are suggested for addressing the problems of these youngsters as well as the problems of the many other extremely poor school children. First published in 2000. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis an informa company.